Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-13


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VITA Bar as numerous - yOcrs. . Il
sopertJrtiy over ths best possible b. Ne.
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toe vocation Of the Law demands o
those Who are 10 be its really soecessf1
yotarbss, a courage and provess, intel
lectual and moral, that is not character
istle Of msdiocFity.
TIE true lawyer will not qaail beforl
any intellectual din -ulty nor BE tarnec
about BY any tornado Of p1slic opinion
nor yield to the selections Of mamnon
Legitimate and ordinary practice Of TIT
Law does not offer q man q fair pFospscl
Of . oompstsnes without strenuous and
long-s1staihed self denying labor Of the
most sxha1stinR kind, bat II q man has
the capacity and will 10 wrestie with
aud overcome intellectual and moral
opposition. the Law OF rs a specially in
VIting neid OF ussfalne Sc for him. Hence
Il 10 that those who gravftate TO your
profession and are retained in Il are IN
comparatively large proportion @en OF
unusually bright and independsns
minds Bot here in the Bar OF this
Territory, and particularly il the young
Bar Of Sesttle-for though there are
men Of yeaIs IN il the Bar IL yosng-
we have, take Is, drawn hither from
every latitude and longitude Of oaf
country, by principle Of natural sslec-
ton, mes ftted and called TO shape and
sslidlfy toe plant institutions of this
rising commonwealth, men IS able and
bold, ss hard working and stout heart
cd, Is honorable and true, as ever
s0uQht to do toe lawyers part in pio-
n Ia Of a nm - z
tined 20 bs great.
The seventeen years OF my OH sisl
work nov closing have been eventful
ones. They fiji q long chapter IN my
life and q very considerable paragraph
in the Territorial history. While they
we're passing, many very notable
changes have happened 10 this Terri.
tory. Population has multiplied ten
fold; wealth and facilities for inter-
course more than tsenty fold. Centers
Of business have shifted and become,
many Of them, permanently Fixed.
Particular sections AMI comm unities
have developed traits which will
never cease to be distinctive. / have
seen hamlets spring and grow TO towns.
and towns to cities. ! have witnessed
the original Introduction OF railroads
through our forests and over prairies
and up into Our mountains, and of
vaterworbs and gas and electricity into
our cities and larger towns. have
welcomed the local and full epfran-
ceisement OF woman aud the enlist
ment of her sweet and wholesome in
duenoe, her quick wis and moral sta
bility. into all lines Of political service
and with signal effect and benefit into
the jury service Of our Courts.
Owing to the variety of oar growth
and the plastic condition OF society and
business, 1t has beea my responsibility
To pass upon q great namoer of novel
AMI perplsxing questions. that could
not arise 10 an older or dgtfsFently COZ
dltionea population. In dealing with
these questions, aud ali questions.
have had constantly the advantage eft
the advice and instrac,ion-bOthw while
at Olympia and while here-Ot the
leading bar Of the Territory, and If
have in any degree fulfilled What the
public has right TO tXpsot from a rea
souably competent judicial cffioer, 1t
has been very largely due to the indus
try, research and good sease Of the
legal gentlemen TO whom suitors have
been discreet enough to oOnfide their
causes. Ildeed. after my experience,
do not see how IL wsFe possible under
our civilization and with tie amount Of
business low cast upon judges in busy
community, for any man to fulfill
at all aeceptably to the public the duty
of Judge In one Of the higher courts,
without such light and assistance as the
bar is calculated to and so admirably
does afford.
Ny great endeavoF, as Judge, has been
TO be- consistent. For consistency lie
good. I lows II IN others; | have as
pired and d. aspire to it myself. Con
sistenoy is q jewel. II is also an exceed
iugly hrm and enduring foundation.
Bot distinction must be made between
consistency as an ornament aud that
which undeFlies and sustaIns. The
former is a surface affair; the latter is
vital. would not underrate the former.
1t is beyond EXPRESSION admirable.
very much desire l.; but IL Is Of sscond-
aFy moment. By tue side OF the other.
it is little worth; exclusive of the other
IL Is nothing. To compare them Is to
compare beauty and love. OBe IL to be
desired as one like to be good looking;
the other az Que must love so be true.
That consistency which have most sd-
nired and lonOed after is sinRlensss Of
heart 81 do the right as God gives TO see
il. II, in that solemn day when every
hidden thing shall come abroad and the
secrets Of All hears be N sde manifest,
aud there shall be given TO every man
according to his work, my Maker and
Il deemsr shall take up the sucoe sive
situations Of my life since / accepted the
offer Of HIS love, and shall show just
what each was.-that such was my be-
ing. my composition, my experience and
nay acknowledgement the occasion,
the persons present, the subject in
hand, that sach vas then my stocK OF
information and my command of ny
faculties-suoh and such my emotions
and such my temp.atioDs,-and shall
demonstrate. that so situated aud OOH
dltioued and constituted as | was, and
supposinR | were indeed animated With
a constant honest purpo-e to do right,
nv conduct could not have been other
Vise than il was. then will be displayed
for me, II for me IL is to be displayed,
the consistency have craved. Saeh con-
sis,enoy, | believe, NAV be had for the
taking. Ii is Gift Of God to every one
for use with thanksgiving IN this age.
but a perfect superficial consistency in
thls world Is impossible. IL will not be
found on me; it ~ vain to expect It on
any. 1t remains for y and by.
Iretire from public life without re
greet. Oface has lorg bsen burden to
me. have often wished to resign, aud
twice quite seriously contemplated snch
step; bat the advice OF friends and
considerations suppressed a. the time to
be prop rly controlling, Murdered, and
20 | have watched with inward smuse-
ment the sd sRa tskirg eject IN my Own
case; Few d Q and none resign Loss
OF office | count gain. was JltRe,
bat am about 60 be ONE. u founi eqnt Il
20 it, the adviser and Instructor of
Judges, \ responsibility fnlly a. htRh as
anv ambition Of mite for this wOrld.
To NV PR daeessors IN cttice, VITO
apened the WAY for ms ard into whose
lahors entered, and II those who hsv-
~srved With me, the clerks, mar-hsls
ard sherifs and their deputies, and the
inrars, bAiiff. ard eriers II the courts,
and 60 the public press whose eoiunus
have slways besu open 70 me and which
las. I think, never blamed m@ where u
understood me. aud 90 a public whose
Esusrous IN ulh qllst approval and
snrport have feit always zrouBd and
uaierneata me, AID especially IN times